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AP News Radio
Biden welcomed back to Georgia after lying low in midterms
"President Biden heads to Georgia tomorrow for a ceremony to honor doctor Martin Luther King Jr. after staying away from the state during the midterm elections. A White House adviser says President Biden will be the first sitting president to deliver a sermon during Sunday morning services at the historic ebenezer baptist church, where doctor king had preached. The president will not only reflect on doctor king's legacy, but also emphasize voting rights legislation, which is stalled on Capitol Hill. Senator Raphael Warnock issued the invitation. He presides over the church, but he had kept President Biden at arm's length during the midterm elections because of the president's lagging approval ratings. And now the Atlanta appearances notable, as President Biden looks to a 2024 reelection campaign, now dogged with the disclosure that classified documents have been found at his Delaware home and a Washington D.C. office. Jackie Quinn, Washington
AP News Radio
After midterms, GOP reconsidering antipathy to mail ballots
"Are starting to reconsider the party's resistance to mail in ballots. Got to be careful with those ballots. Watch those ballots. When former president Donald Trump condemned mail in voting in 2020, conservatives began to shy away from it. They're unsolicited millions being sent to everybody. But Republican National Committee chair ronna mcdaniel said on Fox News this week that Republican voters need to cast ballots early beyond the challenges of COVID-19, ballot glitches, long lines, or bad weather on election day, giving Democrats a multi week jump on voting makes it more difficult for Republican candidates to catch up. In Georgia's Senate runoff, Democrat Raphael Warnock topped Herschel Walker by an almost two to one ratio in mail ballots, Tea Party organizer Debbie Dooley is a Trump loyalist, but says the midterms were the last straw, the GOP has got to put a priority on competing with Democrats from the start, she says, and beat them at their own game.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Rep. Debbie Dingell: Biden Can Monitor the Border Through Photos
"Listen to Sandra Smith, Fox News channel, interviewing Debbie dingell over Biden's absurd assertion that there are more important things than the border. Listen to this. Would you like to see him visit the border? I don't care if he visits the border or not. He doesn't need to visit the border to know we've got a problem. He's got people that report to him every day about what the problem is. And sometimes we fixate on these little issues. Do you think the president doesn't know we got a problem at the border and what the issues are? I know he does. But not necessary to see it firsthand. That's a little issue. I think he knows it's got to be addressed. He's gotten the reports you've seen the photos. So that's, I mean, at some point, he may or may not come, but I think he knows what's got to get fixed and you've seen him begin that process. Wow. How about that? I guess when a president goes to a funeral or goes to inspect a hurricanes an area devastated by a hurricane or a tornado, he doesn't really want. What's he going there for? He's got people that can tell him how bad it is. Can you imagine a sitting president telling the world he thinks there are bigger fish to fry? Than the border?
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Joe Biden: More Important Things Than Visiting the Border
"I come into the studio with a heavy heart over news from the border, mission Texas, want to share with you something that happened. A 38 year old border patrol agent was killed in a high-speed pursuit of a group of illegals in mission Texas earlier today. The U.S. border patrol has not yet identified the identity of the agent, sources say the man was the father of two children, the agent was pursuing a group of illegals on an ATV when he crashed into a closed fence at high speed. It makes Biden's comments even more disgusting than they already are. He was asked, why did you go to Arizona touting computer chips and you're not bothering to visit the board? He's never been to the border. Despite karine Jean Pierre's lies, never been there. Doesn't go doesn't care. You think I'm wrong? When I say he doesn't care, his answer, yesterday, confirms it. Gives it a more important thing to go around. And the new enterprise. Got more important things to their going on than going to the border. Come on, welcome to the border for. What's at the border?
Mike Gallagher Podcast
We're Not Going to Fix Elections Until We Win Elections
"Countries falling apart. I mean, I can't even get over. Some of the scenes with Philadelphia, she last night, Jesse waters. He interviewed this guy with a long gun in his arms. He's a security guard, hired at some gas station. They got armed security guys. Walking around with AK 47s or whatever they are, Kevlar vests, because the owners fed up with the crime. They got people shooting each other in the head, the streets. Shoplifting, shutting down retailers. I mean, these are Democrat policies. Everybody knows it, and every incumbent Democrat in the Senate won every one, how does that happen? Well, maybe just maybe one of the reasons is the message. And I think it's fair to suggest that focusing dare I say wallowing in the past is not going to be a winning message for us. We got to talk about the here and now. And I get it. I get it. If we don't fix elections, we're doomed. I get it. We're not going to fix elections until we win elections. And I understand the pervasive view that many people have that they will always figure out a way to cheat. I get it. It's not a winning message. That's a dead end.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Election Fraud Arguments Don't Work in Arizona and Georgia
"Lots of speculating all the armchair, the Sunday morning, analysts are the Monday morning armchair quarterbacks are going to come out of the woodwork. It's Trump, look at the and here's something that I admit is hard to shake off. It's hard to ignore the fact that every Georgia Republican running for office in the entire state won except Herschel and every one of those Republicans criticized or contradicted the election integrity argument. And I'm going to say something that is painful. I don't like to say it. I don't like to acknowledge it. And I invite you to challenge me. I don't mind. In fact, this is a day where you want to challenge me challenge away. I hope you'll call me. Because it seems pretty clear to me. That whether it's Georgia or Arizona, the drum beat of election fraud focus doesn't work. And we're going to have to acknowledge that it's time to look ahead rather than look behind. And I hate it because I'm as disgusted with Democrats, manipulating election laws to suit their needs, they used early voting. They used mail in ballots, drop boxes, all the garbage they came up with and what we did is we rejected all of that. We don't like early voting as Republicans. We don't like mail in ballots. And we lost.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Shame on the 200,000 Georgia Republicans Who Stayed Home
"Listen, I'm going to say shame on the Georgia Republicans who stayed home. You let the country down. Now we're going to have some suffering and frankly, you did that. And I mean, you could argue with me all day long. All you do is show up and pull the lever. Showed up, if 200,000 Georgia Republicans show up the same ones who voted for him on November 8th, if you just showed up, it had been a 50 50 tie, would go back to Joe Manchin, having extraordinary power and pinning some of our hopes on him to make it tough for Schumer and the Democrats, now Biden's judicial appointments will have an easier time of sailing through countries going to hurt. Countries going to hurt.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Georgia Republicans Had One Job, Stayed Home Instead
"Obviously, bad news out of Georgia and I wish I could spin it. I wish I could tell you that it isn't bad news. Or isn't that bad? It's not catastrophic. I mean, even with Herschel winning, the Democrats technically still had a Senate majority, and I suppose that might have been what caused Republicans to stay home. But stay home they did. Democrats showed up. In Georgia and nearly 200,000 Republicans in Georgia, stayed home. It's really, really stunning because Georgia Republicans had one job. And the country needed those Georgia Republicans. Approximately one point 9 million Georgia Republicans voted for Herschel Walker on November 8th, approximately 1.7 million voted in this runoff. 200,000 fewer Georgia Republicans. And to a Georgia Republican who will call this show and say, well, yeah, I just couldn't pull the lever for Herschel because I just didn't show up because he wasn't a great candidate. I'd say to you, so you want Rafael Warnock? You think he's a better candidate?
The Officer Tatum Show
Herschel Walker Loses Georgia Senate Race
"Big news coming out. That Herschel Walker did not win. The election. And so we'll talk about that right now and I know that there's a lot of people that may want to make an excuse, but I believe that there's no excuses that need to be made. We literally did not win the race. We did not win. And if you see that Brian Kemp won and we lost, this race, then that tells you something. It tells you that we did not compete and we did not do the things that were necessary to win this race. It wasn't cheating. It wasn't ballot harvesting and none of that of the stuff because those things, we could have done to if you help ourselves in this particular election, but we didn't do what it takes to win. And I'm glad to see that Herschel Walker made up in his mind that he was going to say he's not going to make any excuses and that we just did not run a good race. Let me give you some numbers. I think I had them here. So if you didn't watch the election, I think with 99% of the vote in, I don't know if they have a 100% of the vote, but this is as of the 7th, which is today 9 45 a.m. this morning. Harsher walker ended up getting 48% of the vote and Raphael Warnock got 51% of the vote. So he got beat by a pretty decent margin.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Didn't Georgia Conservatives Vote?
"We are recapping the unfortunate Senate results from Georgia a very winnable race where unfortunately, Raphael Warnock will go on to a 6 year term. Someone said, well, Charlie, how do we know they didn't show up? Well, Georgia has the second most counties of any state in the country, and you can just go county by county, go to Wayne county, go to tattnall county, go to tombs county, go to Emmanuel county, their turnout was just down. It's just people who came and showed up or did not show up. It's that simple. We're not even talking about the nonsense and Fulton or Henry or dak or Cobb, turnout was down, and it manifested in hershel walker, unfortunately coming about 95,000 votes short, but 200,000 people in the state of Georgia had something better to do.
AP News Radio
The difference a 51-49 Senate majority makes to Democrats
"Democrats are celebrating their 51 49 Senate majority following Raphael Warnock's win in the Georgia runoff. As Warnock returned to the capitol, he was greeted outside by Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, who hours earlier couldn't stop smiling after the longest evenly split Senate in modern times. It gives us just a lift. An end to the days were just one Democrat could snarl legislation. The outright majority will also make simple governing easier and allow Senate Democrats to be a barrier against legislation from the GOP led house. Schumer figures the Democrats unexpectedly strong midterms showing sent a message to Trump inspired Republicans. That if they follow a maga direction,
AP News Radio
Democratic Sen. Warnock wins Georgia runoff against Walker
"Democratic senator Raphael Warnock won the Georgia runoff against Republican Herschel Walker. I Norman hall, democratic senator Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in the Georgia runoff election ensuring Democrats and outright majority of the Senate for the rest of president Joe Biden's term, with Warnock's second runoff victory in as many years, Democrats will have a 51 49 Senate majority gaining a seat from the current 50 50 split with John fetterman's victory in Pennsylvania. There will be divided government, however, with Republicans having narrowly flipped house control. Walker, a football legend who first gained fame in the university of Georgia and later in the NFL in the 1980s, was unable to overcome a bevy of damaging allegations, including claims that he paid for two former girlfriends abortions. I Norman hall
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Some New, Alleged 'Intel' on Raphael Warnock
"Some new Intel on Rafael Warnock. Again, I just don't understand why in the world the people in Georgia are going to vote for a guy who is pro abortion. He's a communist, he tried to evict a Vietnam War veteran from the apartment building that the church owns and he ran over his ex-wife. Rafi, Robbie, what are you doing, Rafi? Don't you do that, Robbie? Don't you do that, Robbie. Oh my word, Robbie no, no, not my leg. That's terrible. A legend. So yeah, I don't get it. Why would you do that? That makes no sense to me. But the guy got the votes. He's got the votes. The folks down in Georgia. Double went down to Georgia, and now he's pastoring at the ebenezer baptist church. Who would have thought? All right,
AP News Radio
Warnock or Walker? Georgia runoff to settle last Senate seat
"Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker or incumbent Raphael Warnock, Georgia voters are deciding today which one will be their U.S. senator and Washington. Yesterday Republican walker and Democrat Warnock held rallies before today's runoff walker told voters what happens at the polls depends on how many voters show up at the polls. Get your friends to vote, call your friends to vote. This is so important and I say this if you don't have friends, what are you doing to me to do? Make some friends and get them out to vote. Incumbent or not displayed confidence telling supporters, we are going to win, and he said he doesn't mind giving his opponent credit where credit is due. He was a great running back and we getting ready to send him running back to Texas. I'm Donna warder
Mark Levin
Forget About the Sunday News Shows
"This Sunday is why it's how you forget about the news on Sunday do not watch these Sunday shows Meet the depressed defaced the nation They are propaganda mills These are Democrats who run these programs Just frustrate you And of course they're coming to the rescue of Hakeem Jeffries He's not an election denier The only Republicans can be election in ours Not Hakeem no So now they're attacking Hakeem Jeffries He's a historic figure Just like Nancy was a historic phase You can't attack her You can't attack these historic figures ladies and gentlemen And yet Hakeem Jeffries was and is an election tonight It's also a left winger left winger Who's anti semitic and racist uncle Is close to him and he's close to him even though he doesn't agree with his quote unquote theory You know the Jews are rats It's a theory Then we have this guy Raphael Warnock who's running for the Senate To historic Don't question him Now Herschel Walker who's an African American he's a joke But you see Raphael Warnock is historic Now they've spent a $100 million down there trying to destroy Herschel Walker This is why people just don't want to run for office It's a lot of money To change somebody from who he is to what they want him to be And yet we know information about Warnock and none of it came up over the weekend They're asking everybody about Trump who wants to get rid of the constitution don't you know I like the Democrats who you know they support it
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Get Out and Vote Tomorrow for Herschel Walker
"So Politico has a big article this morning all Republicans are in growing despondent over Herschel Walker losing momentum in Georgia, Raphael Warnock is gaining momentum. Yeah, they could have written that 6 weeks ago. They probably did. You know, voters have a funny way of telling sites like Politico. You're not going to tell us who to vote for. This is obviously an effort. I was talking to the lieutenant governor Pamela Everett of in South Carolina. She was into koa Georgia this morning with my pal Joey Hudson, Joey was doing a remote broadcast from Georgia. South Carolina's neighboring state. A lot of people in South Carolina are helping to get out the vote in Georgia by canvassing and knocking on doors and doing all we can to get Herschel Walker elected to prevent the Democrats from getting outright control of the Senate 51 49 and like Pamela said they write these articles and they do everything they can to suppress a vote and to discourage people from turning up at the turnout in Georgia has been huge. And so there's no reason to despair, get out and vote tomorrow's election day. And Herschel Walker could pull this thing out. He's the underdog. There's no question. He's up against Hollywood. He's up against all the millions and millions of dollars that have been funneled into Georgia, supporting an abortion, a pro abortion pastor. I mean, that's all I need to know. Talk about again. A good versus evil. That really is good versus evil. You think about this. The guy that stands at the pulpit of the ebenezer baptist church is A-okay with late term abortion, is that not evil, creeping into our world?
AP News Radio
To boost Georgia's Warnock, Biden is in ... Massachusetts
"Days before the Georgia runoff election polls close, President Biden is aiming to help incumbent senator Raphael Warnock be challenger Herschel Walker from hundreds of miles away. To help a candidate in the south, the president went north, which seemed to even mix him up earlier in the day. I'm going to Georgia today to help senator Warren not to George. I'm going to help center Washington doing a major fundraiser in Boston. He first stopped at a union phone bank. This is a guy who needs our help. Telling the IBW Republicans are blasting Warnock for voting with him, 98% of the time. And it's true. I wouldn't tell that in the phone. The president's midterm strategy was to back Democrats from afar. Spokeswoman karine Jean Pierre says it helped beat expectations. And that worked. She says the president wanted to do whatever Warnock needed in his campaign asked for the Boston trip. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Herschel Walker: Raphael Warnock Is With Joe Biden
"The left is getting pretty worried about this race. Herschel, there's a news story up in The New York Times the headline how Herschel Walker could win the Georgia Senate race. So you can't buy into the mainstream media headlines. You've been out there pounding the pavement. And if the good people of Georgia get out and vote on election day, you're going to have a great day on Tuesday. I will. And I want to give people to get out and vote. I think Raphael won as shown who he's for. He's for Joe Biden. He was California and New York. That's the way he's voted. And I think he's shown that he's been a wolf and seat clothing. He tried to hide everything he's done, but you can't hide your record. You voted for this inflation. You voted for crime on the street. You vote for this open border. You voted to put men and women sports. He also voted against religious free liberties. And that's when you get to the point that he's a man out of cough and to vote for a religious liberties. He will wait. What's going on with this guy?
The Emma Guns Show
"raphael" Discussed on The Emma Guns Show
"And there are horrible horrible stories. You know, I've sat down in the company of multiple murderers who have committed the most horrendous crimes. You know, these are serial killers. I've sat down and spoken to people who are the worst sort of sexual predators. You could every imagine and having to listen to their story, having to listen to them show no remorse does have an impact. Emotionally and personally, I am human, you know, and as much as I've heard it many times, when I hear a man tell me something horrible that he's done, I can't help but be impacted by that. I'm very professional in that I can leave it behind when I come out of prison. Some of it will live with me. And also the conditions, you know, I didn't realize when I started out on this journey, how bad the conditions are in many prisons around the world and how there is a lack of any rehabilitation, how there is so much violence in some prisons when these are places where you're supposed to be changing people's lives, protecting future victims, that's had the biggest impact on me, which is why I set up the Raphael row foundation because it was one thing at the beginning going into these prisons and documenting what it's like because that was what was important to me because people didn't know what it was like. But after three or four prisons coming out and thinking great, we made a good program there. We've informed people. I was still left with this kind of emptiness that that is really bad. You can't have people locked up in prison and not feed them. You can't have a lot of people locked up in prison and there's no electricity where they've got no light or it's just so bad. That is not about prisoners. That's not about the crimes that they committed. This is about humanity. This is about human rights. This is about basic needs. This is about rethinking and re humanizing people, which is why I decided to set up the Raphael royal foundation, which now goes back into prisons and tries to improve those conditions in order for the staff to do the job that they feel is important and that is rehabilitating prisoners. And so how can listeners support the foundation if they want is there a way to get involved or support it? Well, they can go to the Raphael row foundation website and they can sign up to offer their services their expertise. They can donate to the foundation if they are in one of the countries that we are focused in our priorities on, they may want to volunteer to help us do the work that we're doing in these prisons if they have a skill set, you know, they may be a drug therapist. They may be a psychologist. If they want to offer their services in countries where they don't have these kinds of programs and training in prison, then surely that is something that they can do. So it really is about going to our website the Raphael raw foundation website and signing up and we will find something for them to do for sure. But financial support is always the big one for any charity. Listen, I'll put the link in the show notes. So as we draw to the end of our time together, my final question. And I hope this isn't too clunky because when I was thinking when I was trying to formulate it in my head, obviously the fact that you spent 12 years in prison is not a great thing. At all, it was an injustice. But I wanted to find out about whether you have been able to make peace with it or because we talked right at the top of the show about how you are not just this knotted human of trauma and rage. And you aren't. And is it as simple as being able to say, well, if it hadn't happened, I wouldn't be where I am now. How have you been able to, yes, I suppose reach that place of calm make peace with what happened? Have you made peace? I would never forgive those who my life away from me. You know, I could have ended up in a really bad place at the age of 21 or 22. On the outside, had I not been wrongly convicted, I ended up in a prison within a prison at the age of 21 and 22. So that was also a bad place. So I would never forgive the people who told lies that led to my wrongful conviction. I would never forgive the people including the police and the prosecution who knew that I was innocent, but still pursued this conviction against me. I would never forgive those people for what they did knowing that they were putting in innocent man in prison. That's unequivocal. You know, I'm not ever going to forget those people, even if they said sorry to me ten times. No, I'm not going to forgive them. So I'm at peace with that. You know, people said, you must be given in order to move on. No, I'm not going to forgive, but I have moved on. I'm at peace with myself because I've been able to find love. I've been able to trust again, the day I was released from prison, IE, the last time I walked through a door that didn't have a handle on the inside, I was able to fall into the arms of my sister who was my biggest campaigner and cry for the first time in 12 years. And at that moment, at that very moment, all the stress, the anger, the bitterness, the rage in me, almost lifted from me. And so I was able to then engage with people again and start to build, as I say, the love and the trust. Don't get me wrong. It was difficult. I couldn't sleep in a bed alongside someone for a very long time because I'd slept in a single bed up against the wall for many years, and I bang on about that because it's part of the conditioning that prison does to you. But my career has been the distraction, seeing other people suffer in a different way. These are not people that have been in prison. These may be people that have lost the child through knife crime or that have fallen ill and have to deal with their own traumas, listening to the harrowing stories, as well as the inspiration or motivational stories that I've heard from people along my way as a journalist has made me put my own predicament and situation into perspective and it's inspired me to say, actually, I'm going to take my experience and use it for good. And that's what I've done. And I think that's what gives me peace, but more importantly, I am free to do what I want when I want. I can make the decision about baked beans or happy shopping. You know, the things like the bar of chocolate, I can buy it now. I don't need to worry about it. I'm just I'm just in a content place because I know myself I know my passion. I know what I want to do. I know what I want to achieve, and I go for it. And that's what settles me every day. When I'm feeling the challenge or the stress, I think to myself, you know that time when you were bloodied and bruised in a segregation cell where no one knew what was happening to you. Well, now you can tell people what's happened in so don't feel so bad. So I've been in a place so dark, so horrible. Even though it was a long time ago, I can still draw on that today and I encourage everybody to use that as their own inspiration. We often I often say to people, think of the biggest stress you had this time last year. And they're scratch their head and they can't remember it yet at the time. It was probably the most challenging thing that they could ever think of, but a year later they can't even remember what it was within reason, obviously. So I'm in a good place for sure. I can tell, and it's been such an honor to have this conversation with you. I honestly have really learned so much. And I am so delighted that to have shared this with listeners because I think that you have just so much wisdom to share and I'm sure this will be really impactful and really resonate with a lot of people. So thank you. So much for your time. I will put the link to your book, your podcast, your hugely successful television
The Emma Guns Show
"raphael" Discussed on The Emma Guns Show
"So we're talking about the bombardment of advertising that makes people think, well, I can get it, but I can't afford it, so I'm going to go and take it. And people do do that. Not everybody, but I agree with you. I think social media is a force for good, but it's also a force for bad because people live their lives in an unreal world and their expectations are that they can have what other people have, but they can't. And I also agree with you in that, you know, people never talk about their journey through the graph that they put in as you say, Emma, to get them what they want. Because things are not cheap, you know, we're living in a really tough time at the moment. But I don't know, sometimes I think that, you know, you can be content with what you already have. I think you can be, you know, just the successful having good health as opposed to having the 100,000 pound handbag or the designer genes. And we all want that. We all like it, but I think there comes a point in life when you reach an age when you think those things don't matter anymore. And I think the younger generations and I hesitate to say that because it's also everybody. They're told that having the latest designer trainers or being as cool as the idol that they idolize is what they should be aspiring to and that's wrong. I think another thing that really stood out for me, particularly about you and I had, I'm sure you were aware of John mcavoy. Yes. He came on the podcast a couple of years ago. And they're both incredible stories of redemption and what is so wonderful about both of them. Is you could have been defined by the time that you spend in prison. And I think what you do with your podcast is excellent as well. John said something on the podcast that's really stayed with me. It's as you can't be it unless you see it. Which is so, so true, and I think what you do so brilliantly is platform those stories where people perhaps have had a past that would condemn them to be thought of as a bad person or a bad apple in society. And you show that these stories can come good. So you've had people who are in girl gang, women who have been in girl gangs who are now mentors, people who were knife attackers. You show that this is possible. And I think that's what's so important. And is it important to you to show that just because somebody has this thing that they used to do or that happened to them, it doesn't define them and there is a way out of there and there is a way to be really positive and to set an incredible example. What I am one of those people, I think we all are to some extent, but sometimes we don't want to admit it because we're all entitled to make mistakes. And how you come back from those mistakes depending on how severe they are now if it's because you committed a crime and ended up in prison, if it's because you cheated on your husband, whatever that mistake is that people want to judge you for. It shouldn't bar you from becoming the person that you can become once you've learned your lesson or you discovered more about yourself by educating yourself or understanding and having sympathy or empathy for someone else. So my whole life since I came out of prison has been dedicated if you like without purpose in the sense that I didn't set out on this journey. I didn't walk out of prison after 12 years and think, right, this is what I'm going to do. It just gradually evolved around me because I was being judged. When I first joined the BBC, within a year of coming out of prison, and I became a reporter on the BBC Radio four today program with my dreadlocks, my brown skin, my self London accent, and the prison slang to boot. I was being judged in a way that made me realize who I'd become. It was a real kind of defining moment for me, and it made me realize that the important thing is to remain true to who I am, to embrace my background rather than try and hide from it, to use my experience to further my career and expose the stories that people don't want to expose. And the long story is that's led me to talking to people who do have interesting backgrounds as you write these say. Listening to my last podcast for example, you know, a guy called David Martin Dao, Scottish guy, involved in organized crime drug trafficking, goes to prison whilst these imprisoned during a 6 year sentence for organized crime. He starts to educate himself. He comes out. He goes to work. All of a sudden he's now the first team coach and manager of a Premier League Scottish football club. I mean, what an achievement. Here in east story, like many of the other people that I invite on my podcast and I try to avoid having people's stories who we already know about because we've heard it many, many times. So here in the ordinary person talk about their extraordinary journey and why they've become the person that they've become, why they do what they do, what made them successful, how they were able to shake off the stigma if you like. And pursue the career or the opportunities that were given to them. Those are the voices that I find are the most interesting because you can learn something from them. Now, whether it's for a mental health issue, whether it's for an illness, whether it's for, you know, just getting out of bed one day here in somebody who's had a really tough ride through their own making, let's not make excuses, you know, some people they make their bed day lie in it, but it's what they do after. And I just think it's really unfair for us to exclude those people from society because of the mistake that they made that led to their imprisonment or criminal conviction and so yeah, I have been an advocate for those people or give them a platform to share their stories because I think we can learn so much from those individuals. And I think we do, for sure. Because the alternative is that people get written off. And that's it. They just written off and they're suddenly invaluable. And so what's for them then, if the perception is that they have no use, there are no worse. When actually their stories, as you say, are so valuable and experience, isn't it? It's like it's like anything if you're going to try and when we talk about rehabilitation, if you want to reach a bunch of young guys who think carrying a knife is important, if you haven't carried a knife, use the knife, being cut or stabbed by a knife. I'm not saying that you can't go into that space. And lots of people who don't have those lived experiences do go into that space and they do a lot for those kids to try and steer them on the right path. It might be just giving them an opportunity they've never had before, taking them out of their kind of environment and shine them another opportunity or another environment. But somebody who has lived that life like myself, when I go into that space, these kids look at me and they think, you know, where have you come from? You're a kind of aging man who talks well when everything. But then I surprised them by telling them because they have no idea. And I'm doing this next week when I turn up at a young offenders institution here in the UK where I volunteer my time for the first time, I'll go along, I'll go into the room and I talk to these kids about the scar on my face or the life that I led before I become the person that I am today hoping that that will make them realize that sitting in a prison cell shouldn't define them. Commit in a crime shouldn't define them falling out with their parents or people that they love that they can't express those emotions or love to shouldn't define them, that they can, they can climb back to the person they could become. If only they start to believe in themselves and by believing in themselves, they've got to start doing something for themselves in that confined space. So I do believe it's important that lived experiences can go a long way to mentoring and advise in and educate in those who have no concept of what their life could become without that person standing in front of them and saying, well, look at me. I've done it. And that doesn't just contain itself to prison and prisoners. It can be anything it could be somebody who's overweight and somebody stands up in a room who looks really fit mal or female telling that person, look at this picture of me when I was 23 stone, but with determination and commitment, I was able to lose weight, become fit, become healthy, and so can you.
The Emma Guns Show
"raphael" Discussed on The Emma Guns Show
"You could have formulated a way to argue your case. But you did that at the same time in tandem with media because there's no point learning all of that if you don't, if you don't have a voice and you can't get that story out and that really my friend is genius. Well, do you know what? When I was sat in my prison cell, I was completely in community cardo and by that I mean you have very little of the outside world coming in to prison. And as you said at the beginning, you know, technology moved on in the time that I was in prison. So when I was in prison, there was no television in my cell. There was no toilet. There was no sink. No sanitation. You know, I peed and pooed in a bucket, a sort of chamber pot. And when that was full, I did it in a newspaper and threw it out of the cell window. You know, those were the conditions that I was living in in prison. Equally, I didn't have access to radio to listen to what was going on in the outside world. So after about 18 months, you did get papers circling. Don't get me wrong. You did get newspapers, daily newspapers circulating in the prison. But when it was your turn, you got it, or if somebody finished reading one three days later, you might get a free day old paper. And so you catch up with the news, but it's old news then, because it's three days later. And I wasn't aware at the beginning of the publicity that surrounded my arrest and imprisonment until months and months after I was in prison. And I discovered that a lot of that media attention at the time played a significant role in my wrongful conviction because when people are reading that I'm a monster, when people are reading that I'm a murderer, they had no sympathy for my situation because that's what they deemed me to be, a dangerous murderer who deserved to be in prison. What they didn't know was the Raphael row. They didn't know anything about me or who I was or what I was suffering. So during those years in prison, when I turned my I'd say my mentality around based on the advice I got from older wiser prisoners who themselves had been campaigning for many years to have their own convictions overturned when they stopped me and said, you know, fighting from the confines of a segregation cell, which is even more isolated than a normal prison cell. You know, if you don't stop fighting the system, no one's going to hear your voice. And so I embarked at one point on a journalism course because I needed, as you say, to get my voice out there. So the media played a significant role in demonizing me. So I know that the media could play a significant role in telling people that I was wrongfully imprisoned. And so that's why I embarked on this correspondence course to understand the media to understand how to write letters to journalists how to get my story published. And it worked. The media is a very, very interesting thing because right now, I think even a news alert came up yesterday for me, one of the chief detectives, I think, in the Met has been suspended because they participating in WhatsApp conversations where they've made racist comments. And I think we're almost a little bit numb to the fact that police are racist. We hear it all the time, you see it all the time coming from news in America. And now very much more so over here. And I can't think of an example. Again, when I was reading your story, I thought you were on trial with two other men. And all of you were dark skinned or mixed race. And yet there was an eyewitness report that the people guilty of the crimes that you were found guilty of were white. And yet you still stood up in court. It's not funny. You stood up and caught a jury, even with that information still sent you to prison. So, for me, it's like, does it get any more obvious how big the problem is? Imagine for a moment that I'm in the dock. I'm being accused of a murder. I know I didn't commit. And the witnesses who came into the witness box, the victims, we're talking about the victims here. We're not talking about eyewitnesses who spotted something and gave some evidence and could have been wrong. We're talking about three or four separate victims of the crimes that I was being accused of standing in the witness box and describing the perpetrators of the crimes against them. And they described two white men and one black man. The three men that were stood in the dock as you just identified were dark skinned men at the time I had dreadlocks to my shoulder, my co defendant who was darker skinned than me had dreadlocks. And the third defendant was of much darker appearance with short black hair. So when the victims were going in the witness box and telling the jury that the people who committed the crimes against them were too white men and they went further than just describing the color of the men's skin, they described blue eyes. They described fair hair, and as I just said, I had dreadlocks. I've got brown eyes, both my co defendants had brown eyes. And when those witnesses were given that evidence, not just one, but more than one victims, when they were given those bits of evidence, it was an incredible moment during the court case that they could still, this is the prosecution and the police could continue to pursue their prosecution against free black men, but we were an talking about a time where racism hadn't quite hit the headlines at Stephen Lawrence brought it to or cases like Black Lives Matter, you know, this was happening back in 1988. So anybody who thinks it's just starting to happen in America where social media is allowing people to see the elements of racism as you just rightly said from a police officer just this week. And what's been gone in America. It was happening to me when I was in that prison cell when I was in that dock when I was fighting from the confines of an isolation. So because I never stopped for one day reminding people that the victims didn't get justice and I didn't get justice and yet I spent 12 years in prison for a crime that I didn't commit. So is the system completely rotten and is it actually doing any good that it's supposed to do if the idea is to take bad people criminals off the street and rehabilitate them so that they go back into the community and they no longer commit crimes is that a fundamentally broken structure that isn't actually working? I think one of the big problems is that most people believe what they watch in TV dramas.
The Emma Guns Show
"raphael" Discussed on The Emma Guns Show
"Inside the world's toughest prisons and a man who spent 12 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. The so so angry, deep within myself because of what was happening to me that my focus was purely as you said on getting my convictions overturned three or four separate victims of the crimes that I was being accused of standing in the witness box and describing the perpetrators of the crimes against them. And they described two white men and one black man. The three men that were stood in the dock as you just identified were dark skinned men. I'm really excited for you to hear this episode of the podcast because one of my favorite things about creating this show is getting to have conversations with and see the world through the eyes of people. We might not necessarily come into contact with otherwise. Rafael row is one of those people. Journalist broadcaster and author, he spent 12 years in prisons for crimes he didn't commit. And not just didn't commit, but there was plenty of evidence to show that he wasn't the perpetrator, and yet a jury still sentenced him to life behind bars. He used those 12 years to learn the law and media, which led to him being able to overturn his conviction and start a hugely successful career in the media. As you'll hear, Raphael is not bitter or twisted by the experience. In fact, although he acknowledges that he has to live with the injustice, his rage no longer engulfs him. You may know him from his Netflix show inside the world's toughest prisons, and I have to admit, I did want to know why he'd ever set foot in one again after his experience. But more importantly, I wanted to understand from him how you can move forward from something like that happening to you. How to find your focus and direction when rage and anger are filling your head and where the prison really works. Is it the rehabilitation system we led to believe it is? It's all here. Welcome to the show. A very warm welcome to the Emma gun show Raphael row. How are you? I'm very well. Thanks for having me on your show. It's Friday morning. It's a bit chilly, but it's bright, so good start to the day. It's a very beautiful autumnal Friday morning. There has to, you have to say, it's just gorgeous today. Yeah, and people make a bit what they do, some people are in offices, some people are working from home, some people are sitting comfortably having podcast conversations like we are great. One of the things that I try to do with this podcast is to show listeners the world through other people's eyes. And I think those conversations can be so valuable and helpful and informative when the experience and the eyes that you're seeing the world through are things that you just may never encounter in your own life and you have what I think is a very unique and wonderful perspective. Because top line information you spent 12 years in prison for crimes that you did not commit for a crime that you did not commit. And I can't even imagine what that must have felt like and how you are this rational human being who sits in front of me today who is not completely defined by trauma and by rage and injustice. Well, I did have the rage. I still live with the injustice, but I turn that negative experience, let's say, into the positive narrative that I use today to try and as you say, bring people into a world that they're unfamiliar with. And that world is prison. It's crime, it's criminality, it's victims. It's rehabilitation. It's about rethinking how and why we do what we do to punish people, how we punish people, why we punish people. What's appropriate punishment versus rehabilitation, you know, what humanity in a world where, as you say, people often experience the criminal justice system from the victim's point of view and that can be at various different levels. But when you get down to the, I think the nitty Gritty people don't realize that it does touch them in more than just a victimized way for sure, but you're right. I spent 12 years in prison for crimes crimes. I did not commit. And that was for murder and a series of robberies. And I was wrongly convicted when I was 20 years old, spent 12 years in prison fighting to have my convictions overturned and was eventually successful in that campaign and was released at the age of 32. And released into a world that was so different from the one that you left, almost like when I was looking at your story. It's like Marty McFly going back to 1955 and coming out and going to the future and there are mobile phones. There were not mobile phones when you went in to prison, and when you came out, technology had advanced hugely. The entire world was communicating in a different way. Technology is just one thing and you learn quite quickly how to adapt to those things because like anything because we get new mobile phones or new apps on mobile phones or this whole invention of podcast rates are we start to adapt from radio to podcasts.
POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
"raphael" Discussed on POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
"How's it going? I'm playbook deputy editor Zack Stanton, having Monday. We're trying something a little different today to preview the week. I am joined by playbook co author Eugene Daniels for today's playbook daily briefing. Eugene. Welcome back to D.C.. You just visited Georgia, right? I did. I was there for 5 days. And while you were there, you were doing some reporting on the giant marquee Senate race that they have. The senator Raphael Warnock against Herschel Walker. One thing that in the process of your reporting that I thought was kind of interesting, a little behind the scenes peak here is that you went to ebenezer baptist church for Sunday services to do some reporting to talk to parishioners and I think just soak in the whole scene. And while you were there, the reverend Warnock noticed you and was trying to sort of play the refs a little bit, knowing you were in town for some reporting. Yes. Yeah, I did go to ebenezer baptist church. One I wanted to go because I hadn't seen anyone do that yet, really. Like anyone go to the church and kind of just get the scene of what it's like to watch this man who's both the senator Anna reverend. My grandfather was about this preacher. Yes, and so I felt very comfortable there. Maybe too comfortable 'cause I said I would stay closer than most reporters probably would sit in doing one of the, you know, and kind of being in the scene and kind of trying to sneak into the church. And so he's like walks over to me and he's talking about, you know, voting season is upon us. I know because these journalists that come to church on Sunday morning. They sometimes try to sit over in the cut. You know, you know how I know it. Election season, these reporters are in here trying to sneak and he looks at me and he goes, but brother, your Afro is too big. Good to see you, man. You can't hide over the cut. Not with that big old ass. I see you on TV. It was quite, it was quite the thing. It was really funny. My mom has been getting a kick out of it for days. I'm so glad to hear that. So one of the things that you wrote about in a piece that's set up this morning that I wanted to ask you about is there is some hand wringing among some black political strategists, both in Georgia and outside of Georgia about whether or not the Warnock campaign and democratic allies have sort of, as you said, flooded the state with ads. Whether they're doing enough to make the positive case for Raphael Warnock or whether they've focused too much on sort of hammering Herschel Walker. Yeah, one democratic pollster said to me that there could be a misstep in Democrats and Warnock trying to disqualify walker so much and not to re qualify what war not has actually done. And others agree with that. It wasn't just one person who was multiple strategists who are either working for Democrats in that state or are democratic strategists in that state themselves. And I think that's really interesting, right? Because one of the things that we have seen over the years is that politics has been and it has been for many years very negative, right? Knocked down your opponent. That has always been the case. But then you also have to introduce yourself to voters. Something that he said is that folks like Warnock, right? But they don't really have anything to point to that he's done. And I think that's probably the case for a lot of senators, right? Like, I don't think we're not very special in that. When you're a senator and you're one of 50 and then one of a hundred. It's hard to point out the kinds of things that you've done. And so they have to do that themselves. And something that didn't make it into the story. So this is breaking news for you guys here in the podcast. Something that the strategist said that the war not campaign and Warnock himself should be doing is talking about voting rights breathlessly. One voting rights is still a very big issue, especially for democratic voters in the state. It is very important to black voters in the state for obvious reasons. And he is in the pulpit. Not the exact same pool pit, but steps away from the same pulpit that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at, right? And the church is actually a block away from Martin Luther King Jr.'s home. So it's like there's an easy connection between him as a senator and voting rights. Now the problem with that is that Democrats weren't able to pass the genre forever. So it doesn't have much to show for it. But it wasn't interesting concept. Why are you not talking about this thing where there's such an easy connection? Totally. And you know, it is interesting given the tone of this campaign and how fiercely it's being fought, that you have Warnock who occupies dual rules, where he is both reverend Raphael Warnock, as well as senator Rafael Warnock. And they require very different skill sets in some ways. There is certainly overlap, certainly his abilities as a speaker is comfort with people and I think the clarity with which he talks and thinks is very useful for a politician, but you can say certain things as a politician that you aren't going to say as a pastor. And you can talk about people and criticize them in ways as a candidate that you may be wouldn't as a pastor. So how do you see Warnock sort of inhabiting both of those worlds, the political and the spiritual at once and playing those roles sort of at the same time? Yeah, it was kind of weird because, you know, baptist preachers, politics is a part of their sermons at all times, right? So when he came out and started his sermon, he did talk about policy. He used healthcare as a way to describe people's relationship with God. You know, what the healthcare plan that God had for you. He talked about climate change and how important it was. But for the most part, it was like sprinkled within. And so he does a pretty good job of not talking about the race, right? Like he probably can't. And talk about talk about the race. He tells people to vote at the end of it. He tells he tells them, you know, I ain't telling you to vote for me. You can vote for whoever, but I don't know that anyone believe that. I think everyone understands they're not hoping that they vote for his opponent, but he spoke of compassion a lot in his sermon, which was really interesting. Considering all of the drama happening with walker, right? His campaign has been running negative ads as you do. Knocking walker on personal failings. Of which there is a list for walkers, not just this case. There's been scandal after scandal after scandal. And even on the debate stage on Friday, you know, he kind of he needled him a little bit. But it isn't as nasty as we used to politics being. But it still feels like this juxtaposition, right? That you're walking this fine line between not going too far, right? You can't, you can't really attack him, how probably most Democrats would on that stage because on Sunday you got to get in the pool pair, right? Right. You have to be able to go and tell the people that you are living and trying to live for God like life. And also doing your job. And so we haven't seen this before, right? This is not something, especially modern politics, where we've seen someone have to straddle this line. And the fact that it's a black baptist preacher preaching in the doctor Martin Luther King church in Atlanta, Georgia has found itself kind of being a swing state is really fascinating. So you mentioned the big debate between Warnock and walker that was on
Good For You
"raphael" Discussed on Good For You
"I feel like i got more out of being one of the speakers than anyone got out of it because the questions. These people were asking me like i was able to sort out a lot of my own like an i and i also believe that it's a safe space to not. I'm just gonna say this. And it's it i know it's not gonna come out elegant and people are gonna have feelings about it but i do feel like there's a lot of like bullying with men feminist groups of you have to be this kind of feminist and being a feminist or strong woman means this initiative to wayne actor way and the jane club i felt very able to say things like and take take me like leave the rest But if you don't wanna be. I feel like there's a lot of pressure on women now that's like Do i have to be a ceo of a fortune. Five hundred company like Do i have to direct movies. If i don't want to like this pressure to be excel in a way. That might not be what you want. Well i think what if i does. I our rest. And also what i think that does sometimes as we also completely devaluing. This is really the spirit of the jane club and why we started this the invisible labor that women are doing so i. We believe firmly that if you walk into the space the digital space right now and you are taking care of your children full-time that that's work. Yes and it might. It might be an honor. Secret of be a founder of an app. No don't want but by the way that work is just as valuable butts valuable work. That's taking care of your parents as a caretaker. That's difficult on. Joe kirk your domestic labor doing housekeeping and someone's home all work is honor that drives me nuts. 'cause everyone like there's this new thing where direct women directing movies is the ultimate thing. It's like they have three hundred people helping them. That's harder than raising two jobs. And i've had a lot of struggle with when i got offered trek movies. I kind of don't like it that much. Unless it's like the perfect thing and was it was like all of our friends and it was a collaborative effort. And i was just the person that had to like be a bitch every now and then or demands. Whatever a bigger budget like i can do all that. But there's this thing where it's like. I'll get offered moves direct and it's like i'm a bad feminist if i don't say it's like no the whole point of this is to not do things you don't want to do because you have chew well and also i think it's like that i the gene club and i firmly believe to look really believes that if you if we just simply recreate patriarchal and capitalist systems. Then we're not moving the ball forward. Like what i what i want is to feel like. I'm actually valuable in our culture without accomplishing anything Actually says the person that started three businesses wrote a book and and also like i'm raising children and that's and that's and i have. I took care of my father when he was sick. That's one of my greatest accomplished. That's right that during this vast and obviously this podcast but there are. I'm trying to for myself. Really lake decolonized my relationship with capitalism. And not defined your cellular your accomplishments activity for me. My self esteem has always been so linked to my own quote productivity which really lies in the hands of others some my entire career by myself esteem is in the right place and i am right with myself and whatever you believe god the universe who gives a shit When i can kind of do nothing for a day and just take care of myself and not feel guilty more..
Good For You
"raphael" Discussed on Good For You
"Half off your first month wait. No one's gonna say trump twenty twenty four. It's not there's no trump twenty twenty four me so we do a lot of community sort of curate ing and we do a lot of facilitating oliver channels to keep it a really respectful wonderful joyful hilarious space. So that's a plug for jane club because it's changed my life And it's so much. And if i may i also believe that. The jane club provides these interviews with people these symposiums. These talks the type of guests that you guys procure is like everything you want out of the ted talks. But you're like. I don't need to know why pregnant is killed at like. I don't need these esoteric. Ted talks about late thanks. How architecture has evolved to be more like the jungle. That's interesting but it's not gonna change my life and These talks are like you know to me. The biggest issue the biggest most important words to me right now is like access like having access to the wisdom is rice started. Podcast i was like i guess. There's just something in our blood as elders to pass on wisdom like you and that just we've been so disconnected for so long and We have a lot of wisdom. It's weird to say that it's true and so for this next generation or current generation to. I'm not on the homepage. That's where Gym club dot com. I will be following some complaints. These talks like i did one and well attended. And then to think you. God jane jane fonda and i were dory was i was like how did i do i go. Numbers wise it. She's like jane fonda a little higher but your guest And i'm sitting there talking to these people are asking me questions. I'm telling you. I'm like this is so value that people get to in real time. Talk to me. Ask me anything they want. And i'm just telling them every single thing i've learned. I don't know how else to get this to these. Women like urine men. Whoever it is young people like it's a miracle it's listen. Thank you for doing that. By the way and an all were obsessed not talk to our take women for there were but people wunderlich wise facebook toxic. Why going on there And you really do assume that like you're just signing onto facebook and it's free right but like these platforms of course are not free and you are being sold as in. There is a very well oiled functioning machine behind it. Our platform is a paid platform. But the other thing i'll say is that we don't deny anyone access who can't afford it so code we ever promo code for you all but also if that promo code still makes it inaccessible please no you can sign on it assigning scale. We do that and we're able to do that because so many of our other. Jane's pay more we are able to sustain ourselves with oliver citing scale. Jane's who are completely anonymous and our angel genes are also anonymous. And we do that. Really intention jane will. You can be an angel dean. And i will make that happen. Okay thank you but It's a really beautiful community platform and Just to way..
Good For You
"raphael" Discussed on Good For You
"Like i won't be able to get my braces tightened if i don't get the job. So so at that level. The stakes are so high. It's not like i would be famous. It sounds like i want litter. And if that's okay. I like to get a pap smears for the first time. I do find doctors to be the for the most part like the most intelligent also yes in terms of just like cutting through the bullshit seeing everything where with the crew were picking up people's moods we're laying little honestly like dogs are little balls of energy are who are constantly figuring out. Where do i fit in. How am i a part of this of the dogs are how i picked the guys at it. So if my dog doesn't like a guy and he's gone. Wow because they know talk myself into it. Here's a good job. He's really nice person who lives here. Or what did i like. You know. he's been married before that's good. He knows how committed works in. Marriage is gonna be hard. Whatever if my dog's not interested unlike you just save me two years see. It's so interesting. Because i feel like when i first met you. You were not the animal person you are today. That's been a really long journey. Well it's weird. Because i was always an animal person but i was four. So yes okay and didn't believe i deserve any kind of unconditional love. So i used to rescue dogs for other people and get other people dogs and raise money for dogs. But you didn't have your own and my therapist was a dog. And i was like we'll because like i'm busy and travel a lot and she's a okay then you'll just get it house sitter. Send to like. I didn't believe i deserved that kind of joy emily. You're with me when i first got. It was elisa when i first got a dog..
Good For You
"raphael" Discussed on Good For You
"Emily did really put this into my voice. Ease of incorporating into daily rituals. What you know that. They give us copy for us to reach out bay. We'll it. It's there's okay fair copy but hold on okay. Exactly what they wanted. This is why. I love arizoma. I shot. That's what you were gonna stay. We're is finally seeing words spelled correctly and craig grammar. I got confused. And now we've got their protein powder. All you do is add water shake and sip. I love ritual so much. I bet i can take down this whole shake i made in the time. It takes you to read more. Copy lessons unnecessary. Oh she's going okay. Is that how let's go. Hurry rushing along okay. Oh ritual is made traceable you deserve to know where you're putting in your body. And why and emily puts a few things in her body at both holes you really. She's got to be careful with what she does with this one of a kind visible supply chain. You always know what's in your formula. There's no rigmarole. There's no red number five. Sorry emily Is and where they tell you the agreed from. And then they're -cluded okay. Understood read sour because this is just funny ritual supporters daily held for tomorrow as much as what happens if you just keep drinking buke made with nutrients to sport bones brains which emily's anita brain supported now because it has no oxygen and for me. I've got to do this. I want this to be very clear that this shows turned into fear factor and it was not my idea and muscles to help maintain muscle mass as you age. Not that anyone here is aging so why not just shake up your ritual to make trying to make trying something new less scary. I've emily sagging. Your dick is new and scary. Ritual drinking glow. Stop you from drinking. This is this is the only a healthy thing i've ever seen putting your body so i'm trying to get you to really Wrote as much as you possibly can so close full ritual. And i love it. I feel like you were the most annoying sorority sister. Like you're the about to delta. Can i help you help you. In a sorority try formation. That i can't take you you didn't you can't tell that based on how long she sucked on that phallic thing no that is a delta bench right..
Homo Sapiens
"raphael" Discussed on Homo Sapiens
"I have never ever experienced a anything with my kidneys and suddenly they shut off and startling. Uh the worst time and this is just like just you got used to it and it was fine. No change the change. The medicine but changed me for another medicine which is also one pill and i just had my buddy accepted like really good. I mean i've been in one pill ever since eight months ago and i'm really happy with it. That's good but even there's a class to against the pharmaceutical with the the prescribed this medicine for without warning. The people that the people it works for i mean you know it's a crap game some bodies just react so i mean it's saving a lot of people's lives subsidy this just you know he's difficult. No i'm i mean it's it's what it is you know i never i when i got a i diagnose i was depressed. I think for like months. And then after monte whatever will be will be on nagorno leave four eighths. I'm gonna make aids as part of my life as possible. Important part because i need to take care of it but i'm gonna leave and the same thing happened when i came out of the closet. You know i said well. Yeah i'm proud to be gay. And i'm proud to be out and i'm proud to be this but what i'm gonna do i'm gonna leave for the community or i'm gonna leave raphael's gay life and that's when i sit down with both thanks to separate it fucking closet is rainbow. It's you it's been you can. You can say. I'm the person in the world. Yes i am but a still in my life. That's attracted to him. It was very independent of all of it but always being able to exist with any of it right. you know. it wasn't an identity was. He was very you know raphael. It was quite person in the street to look at me..
Voices of the Community
"raphael" Discussed on Voices of the Community
"Help them stabilize their operations and continue supporting families to find out more about rafael houses. Residential shelter and bridge program as well as support their children's programs. Please go to rafael house dot. Org after listening to how rafael house is helping our families stay in housing. We hope that you will get engaged in advocating for our state legislators to both extend the rent moratorium and provide more funding payments to help families to reduce their background as well as support other programs over the past fourteen months of this series. We wanted to bring voices from wonderful powerful organizations supporting our families youth and adults while being une housed as well as providing the necessary. Wraparound services to help stabilize them. We hope that you will take the time to listen. Back to these incredibly insightful interviews with kevin from miracle messages in episode. One denise. Chris from lava may x. in episode three megan from simply the basics in episode sixteen doug from huckleberry youth programs in episode nineteen charles and damore. Ea from at the crossroads in episode twenty nine. Along with our conversation with. Liz lynne of be magic and sakina of third street youth center and clinic in episode fifty one as well.
Voices of the Community
"raphael" Discussed on Voices of the Community
"Of our high school students to have an a plus in a on her english papers for the first time after working so hard with us for all four years of high school so she improved her spoken and written communication skills and also shared that. Her teacher shared her a plus paper as an example with other classes and a teachers training. So there's just comes to show how we just have to be creative and continue to support our families with the services that we have an mark same question so they would sensitive shared. Is the reason why we get out of bed every single day and are part of the team. It's amazing the impact that we have and don't really realize it until moments like that. And i will say we're nothing without staff without her team. You know our team is truly a group of really passionate professional individuals that are constantly looking to see how we can improve. The lives were family. Emily see where we continue to improve our model on how a supporter families as well too. I really think that for us. The greatest impact that we've had is that we've really had a chance to bring her programs online. We really efficient on making sure. That families don't have to commute into raphael house from the time resources effort to engage in our programs. They did in the past and they really have access to technology the resources the lives to overcome the digital divide. I think that's been a big part of but i'm excited about helping. Our families currently also moving ahead adding more aspects to support our outreach to make sure that we can provide that for families and it is also us focusing in helping them strengthen their technological skills. I mean a lot of our families to solving simply take for granted. Email google suite or microsoft office. Any of those things are things that are families are typically using or the children may abandon. The parents have been so. It's a way of focusing our time in resources to see what the technological needs in skill sets our families and seeing how we could support them so they're successful really this new digital online world. That probably would have taken another decade to get to this point but covid kind of forced us to step into this new brave reality. So i'm happy that we're able to support a family's sway and the passion of the staff is continually seeing how we can help our families moving ahead and really make sure that we support their needs matter. What challenges are facing moving on. Thank you and mark for sharing raphael houses work. Today we will make sure that listeners. Have your contact information website and social media so they can follow raphael house and get engaged in your work and to help your mission and hopefully get out there and volunteer and.
Voices of the Community
"raphael" Discussed on Voices of the Community
"Of the mission to achieve daily basis and we're all equally important to making sure that our families are successful and when those families walk through the door and they really feel that sense of support. Let's of family in the way and they see all the different spaces. They had the first family meal review. Them are many changes every night. Our chefs create food with I always say it's kind of a heart solely organization. The families can pass the food around to their children. They have their own private space miller there as well to would never enter unless of health and safety. That's truly their space. And that idea of really really treating people like an individual and making sure that their needs are met and that we really continue to make sure that russia house feels like a home over there and that home will extend beyond agassi rafael house into their new home when they finally get house to find a place and we're always going to be there for them if needed so. My favorite memory is looking at the especially people. I walk through the door. I can't wait till we have a chance to have more people come through the community to see the work that we're doing experience raphael house and right now my joy is seeing the families in i walk through the door and that support that they feel that relief that they feel that. If finally have a place that canal they can home until the real next home achieved. Thank you was really wonderful overview if you will of to kind of wraparound services that either liver and its impact so mark staying with you for folks who are listening to the program right now and that could be someone who wants to perhaps be a volunteer or to make a donation to the fiftieth anniversary event for example or even someone who might be listening to this program that wants to be able to access raphael house. How can folks get engaged. I mean the mainly get gauged. I'd say is the go-to rafael. How dot org which is a main website. We have all the information on our fifth year. Celebration we'll be celebrating by the way throughout the air. Really throughout the next twelve months through our various live events as we can start holding them through our campaign's of celebration storytelling really reaching out to the community to get more people involved. Obviously our volunteer programs a little limited right now just because covid but there are some ways that our volunteer program is being very creative about getting involved. Obviously things like virtual tutoring in helping us with small fundraisers. Helping us. actually come to your company. We've done a beautiful lunch. Parts we in members of the staff come out we do it via zoom and whatever time works you talk about the work that we're doing and really kind of help have a form on homeless in san francisco. How we're a part of it. How they can get more involved. And of course on social media follows off our house at south for rafael. How san francisco and we have a very active social media community. We love Part of that. So we are hundred percent privately funded organization a community supported as well too we as argumentation currently are looking to continue to increase our donor base to increase our stakeholders to increase impact and every single donor. Whether it's a five dollar five hundred fifty thousand eight hundred thousand million dollar. You're all parts of our community in every single dollar council organization so please reach out.
Voices of the Community
"raphael" Discussed on Voices of the Community
"Than twelve families. Well really special talk more about the program details but the one thing that was very unique was that even though cova was happening. Says he'll probably go into this more detail. We did have families actually able to successfully exit shelter and find housing during covid which is also very surprising also due to really the work of the staff and i'm really the partnerships with the families as well to we're also able to conduct intakes as well obviously to stay within that standard about twelve. But i think one of the greatest areas that we had a chance to really expand was really looking at how we can kind of really enrich those services tore families within our program and the came out about as well to this new idea that we've been kind of working out for a few years was family stability program. The idea is for limited with a number of families we serving shelter currently of course based upon the department of public health guidelines. Were some other areas that we can have a really significant impact during covid and ensure that we increase our ability to support families and ensure that families are currently in a bridge program. Do not fall back into homelessness. I had the resources that they need to remain stable and really the work that says seat and our staff down with family. Stability program was so important. And i'll let her talk a little bit more about that but really the key component was what we've learned from taking your programs for the online including tutoring program workforce developments and even having access to other aspects of programs. We learned that you were helping families. In the bridge program get access to resources without having to travel back in raphael house without having spending time money and resources to come meet us Needs so we really found some efficiencies to really expand our program because of access to digital technology that our families how have and a big part of that was the family security program. So says if you wanna talk with more about famished civility program would be great. I did want to share that. We still wanna make sure that we follow health and safety protocols because though we may be coming to a point where there may be restrictions lifted. It is still very important for a rebel house. Team to follow health and safety protocols ask her guidance so we really do follow their lead. And i also wanted to add that the department of homeless distance supportive housing has been really instrumental in leading this conversation on a weekly basis rafael..
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"raphael" Discussed on Voices of the Community
"So again these are just a few items that we support with them lease during this time and also under each program so much of what you do obviously is in person right. You're there in person in there in your facilities house. Covid nineteen impacted the operations and would have the team done to pivot. Everyone's favorite word these days to address these issues. Yeah i mean really. I think the biggest challenge has been shelter capacity. I mean our facility or currently banned from for pretty much most of times rafael house on a facility. That's on sutter. Larkin street in wasn't old. I believe the golden gate hospital developed the nineteen thousand seven so the buildings are much older building. It's really conducive to our program when it comes to the idea of group gatherings either group gathering spaces like we have a wonderful teen room. We have a tutoring room. We have a computer cloud. We have a workforce development office essentially a separate building a beautiful children's library main library children's reading garden a hop garden children's play area on the roof and a beautiful celerion for a lot of our programs but even our dining room itself is also based on this idea that everyone has a table cavern large group even though you've Table and in new dined together so everything was kind of built around the social aspect and when obviously. Kobe hit we as normalization. I kind of remember. The first couple weeks sat down during her senior team meeting in the library and looked at each other and said i think this is the last time we're going to be and a lot of my friends and a lot of people. I know work within the medical industry. What they're talking initially about. Kobe was really that this is something they weren't seeing. It was going to happen just a couple of weeks. It was being expressed. Initially this is something that really could have a long lasting effect on our ability to gather and really how conduct self socially so we a senior team right away how to make an assessment looking at our building in thinking..
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"raphael" Discussed on Voices of the Community
"Their income and with this are focused within our services also switched to supporting them in applying for unemployment benefits tax relief funds. So really the services that we provided changed in that way. This is the director of family services of rafael house with over. Fifteen months into the pandemic are most vulnerable families are continuing to face housing problems and securing support services. The city of san francisco has extended the rent moratorium for another sixty days to the end of august. But the end of the state of california's rent moratorium ending june thirtieth with the potential of more families becoming homeless. We wanted to bring you the voices of rafael house to share their work on being the bridge out of homelessness and poverty for families over these past fifty years during remotely bisesi.
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"raphael" Discussed on Chachi Loves Everybody
"L. me a little bit about being airborne traffic reporter. Were you in a in a plane or helicopter. My first day after who never forget it. They need somebody to fly. And i had i had applied for this job. And you know it was just kind of part-time villain and it was a snowstorm. And i was expecting at the time. Never forget it. Because i was expecting a helicopter that was the equivalent of the show. Air wolf you know you know and you know they were like well have you been. Hello yeah yeah. And then i got there and it looks like the mash helicopter president. Dave cianci dennis loves radio and all of his radio friends. Hey everybody because she loves everybody. I'd like to welcome. Idee raphael and before you say hi. Heidi lemme intro you properly. Heidi's.